The mathematical underpinnings of the U-Prove technology
have been published
in the book “Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures
and Digital Certificates; Building in Privacy,” authored
by Dr. Stefan Brands and published by The
MIT Press in August 2000 (ISBN 0-262-02491-8,
first edition) with a foreword by professor Ronald
L. Rivest. The MIT Press has kindly granted
us the permission to make the book contents
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